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Ah nice one :) yeah front badge is carbon as well. Not sure if it'd look right on a Monaco, maybe if you've got other black/carbon bits it'd work though. What colour are your wheels?
I always use Autoglym bumper and plastic restorer. Makes the plastic look brand new and lasts a while too. I'm going to colour code my bumpers soon though
I carbon wrapped my first ones but didn't sand the letters down so they were raised through the carbon. Yeah orange lettering would look cool mate :)
I'm gonna start buying stuff from the scrappy and sell it on eBay lol, I wonder if anyone actually buys them at that price though :S
Yeah the 2.0 16V ones fetch silly money for some reason :S no point paying £15 for them when you can probably pick some up for a few quid at the scrappy :p
After you've wrapped them, are you leaving them blank or getting the lettering or what?
No worries and thanks mate :) yeah the numbers were quite easy to sand off.
If you're going to wrap the bullets, I suggest you don't leave them too scratched, otherwise the wrap might not stick on that good. The smoother the surface, the better it will stick and less chance of it bubbling or...
Like this:
I think you should have Monaco background and silver lettering for bullets, then spray your diamonds In the same silver so it gets rid of the chrome look :)
Check out this link, about halfway down the page, I got a spare set of bullets and did this :)
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?613699-Danman-s-Mk2-1-6/page9
Yeah I didn't want to get any bigger spacers in case the wheels went right under the edge of the arch. When people are in the back seats my tyres disappear inside the arch lol. Hopefully your 20mm ones won't rub too much :)
I bet it's dead hard to keep clean then and yeah I suppose so, there's this red Vauxhall near me and it doesn't look like it's been washed for years. The paint is all faded and peeling :/
Yeah I'll just stay there till I can find a full time job. Hey that's not a bad idea, door to door car washing :p tbh though I wouldn't let anyone else wash mine in case they scratched it :p
Hmm okay then. Doesn't sound too difficult, my dad said he'd spray them for me if I get the paint and manage to get the inserts off :p
I wouldn't dare try and spray something that big lol :p probs ruin it!
Tbh I'd go for the proper Lamin-X, might be a bit more expensive but at least you know it's decent stuff :) oh yeah you know when you colour coded your bumper? Do you have any photos or anything cause I want to do mine but not sure how you get the inserts off :S cheers!
Fitted some wheel spacers on Friday, I think the stance looks so much better now but I'll let you guys be the judges. Here's some photos :)
Ooh shiny!
With extended wheel bolts:
Before:
After:
Front setup:
Rear setup:
After a good clean and all the spacers fitted :)
I went for 16mm all round and they just leave enough room so the wheels don't rub on the arches. Easiest thing to do is just go out and measure how much room you have. Are your wheels standard? Oh yeah and make sure you get hubcentric ones if your going more than 5mm :)
I've got a skoda splitter on mine, looks nice and simple and the cheapest one you'll find :)
But like Scrooge said, being lowered you will go through a few. I'll be needing a new one soon and I haven't really had mine lowered that long :(